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Designing a border

Once you insert a video into your presentation, you can jazz it up by giving it…a fancy border that coordinates with your theme.…Click on your video and then on the Video Tools Format Ribbon, click on the…Video Border button, just to the right of center.…Here, you can pick a color for your border.…Right now, my border is very, very thin so this is very subtle.…The colors up here coordinate with your PowerPoint theme.…The standard colors are the standard ROYGBIV rainbow.…I'm going to go ahead and pick this red.…

Now, I'm going to go up to the Video Border button again.…If you want more colors in addition to these, click on More Outline Colors and…you can pick more colors off of the grid that appears. I'll click OK.…Go back up to the button again and now take a look at the Weight.…You can add anything from a hairline up to a 6pt think line.…Go back to the button again, and now let's take a look at the Dashes. There's…Diamonds, and Squares and Dashes and Dash-dots.…

We're going to go ahead and go down to the bottom and choose More Lines.…

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Released

9/27/2011

Discover how to integrate and enhance video and audio to create a more engaging PowerPoint presentation. In this course, author Alicia Katz Pollock emphasizes the technical details necessary to make a multimedia presentation work: from working with appropriate file formats, to applying video styles, to reducing the file size of multimedia presentations for sharing.

Topics include:

Using video and audio appropriately

Linking vs. embedding media

Considering copyrights

Inserting video

Working with proprietary formats, such as QuickTime, YouTube, and Flash